Research Catalog

Title

Medical examinations : dissecting the doctor in French narrative prose, 1857-1894 / Mary Donaldson-Evans.

Author

Donaldson-Evans, Mary

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiii, 240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The literati's enthrallment with medicine and their subservient adoption of a medical model in the creation of their plots and characters have not previously been seriously questioned, In Medical Examinations. Mary Donaldson-Evans corrects this oversight, Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, she argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony, a resistance fraught with ideological implications. Tainted by a subtle - and sometimes not so subtle - anti-Semitism, some of the fiction of this period adopts counterdiscursive strategies to tar the physician with his own brush.
• Featured authors include Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Emile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse and Leon Daudet."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Physicians
• History, 19th Century
• History of Medicine
• Medicine in Literature
• French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Physicians in literature
• Medical fiction > History and criticism
• Literature and medicine > France > History > 19th century
• France

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• "A Bison original."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Madame Bovary's Blind Beggar: A Medical Reading -- The Doctor and the Priest: A Case of Collusion in Madame Gervaisais -- Miasmatic Effluvia: L'Assommoir and the Discourse of Hygiene -- Counter-Discursive Strategies in Huysmans's En menage -- Voices of Authority? Maupassant and the Physician-Narrator -- The Physician as Foreigner: Alphonse Daudet's Le Nabab -- Hydrotherapy and Medical Bloat in Maupassant's Mont-Oriol -- Medical Menace in Leon Daudet's Les Morticoles.

ISBN

0803266286 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00037427^

OCLC

43884933

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library